into Germany undisturbed, but it was
realized about 12 o'clock that although Dollfuss was dead the loyal
Austrians had surrounded the Government Palace and prevented the
organization of a new Nazi regime. They held the murderers prisoners.
The German Propaganda Ministry therefore forbade publication of the
news sent out an hour before and tried to collect all the releases
that had been distributed. A copy was brought to me today by a
friend.

"All the German papers this morning lamented the cruel
murder and declared that it was simply an attack of discontented
Austrians, not Nazis. News from Bavaria shows that thousands of
Austrian Nazis living for a year in Bavaria on German support had
been active for 10 days before, some getting across the border
contrary to law, all drilling and making ready to return to Austria.
The German propagandist Habicht was still making radio speeches about
the necessity of annexing the ancient realm of the Hapsburgs to the
Third Reich, in spite of all the promises of Hitler to silence him.
But now that the drive has failed and the assassins are in prison in
Vienna, the German Government denounces all who say there was any
support from Berlin. "I think it will be clear one day that
millions of dollars and many arms have been pouring into Austria
since the spring of 1933. Once more, the whole world is condemning
the Hitler regime. No people in all modern history has been quite so
unpopular as Nazi Germany. This stroke completes the picture. I
expect to read a series of bitter denunciations in the American
papers when they arrive about 10 days from now."

As I stated before, the German Government denied any connection
with the Putsch and the murder of Dollfuss. In this connection, I
should like to invite attention to the letter of appointment which
Hitler wrote to the Defendant Von Papen on 26 July 1934. This letter
appears in a standard German reference work Dokumente der
Deutschen Politik, Volume 2, Page 83. For convenience we have
identified it as Document 2799-PS, and a copy translated into English
is included in the document book. The defendants may examine the
German text in the Dokumente der Deutschen Politik, a copy of
which is present in my hand, Page 83 of Volume 2.

I ask the Court if it will take judicial notice of this original
German typing.

I should like to read this letter which Chancellor Hitler sent to
Vice Chancellor Von Papen. I think it will provide us with a